DISNEY HEADS BACK TO COURT TO REQUEST NEW TRIAL ON COMPLEX

          Ten days after receiving a $240M jury verdict for
     "stealing the idea behind its Wide World of Sports Complex,"
     Disney filed a motion on Monday for a new trial, according
     to Richard Verrier of the ORLANDO SENTINEL.  Disney's motion
     claimed that attorneys for All Pro Sports business execs
     Nicholas Stracick and Edward Russell "improperly swayed
     jurors through a 'populist rhetoric and anti-business
     prejudice'" by casting Disney as a "big corporation
     trampling on the little guys."  Meanwhile, Disney also filed
     a motion to reduce the jury award to "anywhere from" $30,000
     to $2.6M.  But All Pro Sports asked the court to order
     Disney to pay up to $5M in attorneys fees and to triple the
     total damages against Disney to $720M.  Verrier writes that
     despite Disney's filing, "It could be months before a
     hearing on the motions is scheduled" (ORL. SENTINEL, 8/22).